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Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites that belong
to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain
species of sand fly, including flies in the genus Lutzomyia in the New
World and Phlebotomus in the Old World. The disease was named in 1901
for the Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman. This disease is also
known as Leichmaniosis, Leishmaniose, leishmaniose, and formerly, Orient
Boils, Baghdad Boil, kala azar, black fever, sandfly disease, Dum-Dum
fever or espundia.
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